Five octopus vids

The coconut using octopus has been making the news lately, as the first evidence of tool use by these animals. A good opportunity to post some vids of these cool creatures:

UPDATE: the “first tool use” has been somewhat oversold. Thanks to Zen Faulkes for calling my attention to this.

They are resourceful:

Camouflage skills:

More camouflage skills, and dining habits:

More dining habits:

Flexible:

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2 Responses to “Five octopus vids”

  1. Zen Faulkes says:

    The “first evidence of tool use” angle has been a bit oversold:

    http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2009/12/ive-got-lovely-bunch-of-coconuts.html

  2. Iddo says:

    Zen Faulkes :

    The “first evidence of tool use” angle has been a bit oversold:

    http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2009/12/ive-got-lovely-bunch-of-coconuts.html

    Thanks for calling my attention to your post! I fixed mine to reflect that.